Rooster Town
Sources
Evelyn Peters, Adrian Werner, and Andrew Stock, Rooster Town
Rooster Town website: https://roostertown.lib.umanitoba.ca
David G Burley, “Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb“
Laura Forsythe, “The Present Day Impact of Rooster Town“
Evelyn Peters and Lawrence Barkwell, “Rooster Town: A Metis Road Allowance Community”
Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg Free Press
Before there was Grant Park Mall and the Pan Am Pool, this area in South Winnipeg was Rooster Town – or Pakan Town, as its residents called it. In small homes built on the fringes of the city, the community’s mostly Métis residents lived their lives and raised their families here for more than 50 years before the city forced them out.
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An enormous thank you to Frank and Darryl Sais for sharing their stories with us for this episode!
Thank you also to Evelyn Peters, Adrian Werner, Andrew Stock, and the late Lawrence Barkwell for their Rooster Town project. Much of their data, photos, etc., can be found on the project website here: https://roostertown.lib.umanitoba.ca
If you have stories about Rooster Town/Pakan Town or you know someone who does, please get in touch!
